Estill, SC has a F safety grade (2/100) with a violent crime rate of 2169 per 100,000, 516% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Estill's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,752). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to SC and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Estill, SC is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 516% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Estill, SC shows violent crime at 2,168.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,139.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 516% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 40.9% of the 93 Part I offenses reported in Estill for 2024, against a median of 14.9% across comparable South Carolina cities — a gap of 26.0 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Position in the state cohort
At 2168.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Estill ranks 5 of 149 — above 144 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +423.1% against the cohort median of 414.6. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Estill's 2168.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Atlantic Beach (2093.0), Allendale (2263.4), Dillon (2371.8), Hemingway (2375.8). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 70.9% of reported property offenses in Estill, against a cohort median of 80.6%. The remainder is burglary (6) and motor vehicle theft (10). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1958.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 2168.9 in 2024 (+10.7%). The highest observed value was 2458.1 in 2022 and the lowest 1149.4 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Estill's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 4 Census sq mi, Estill logged 13.7 property and 9.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Estill leans on larceny-theft at 42% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,343.
Violent offenses are 41% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Estill offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 55 | 3139.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 39 | 2226 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 10 | 570.8 |
| Burglary | 6 | 342.5 |
| Arson | 2 | 114.2 |
| Violent Crime | 38 | 2168.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 35 | 1997.7 |
| Murder | 2 | 114.2 |
| Robbery | 1 | 57.1 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 1,838 | 1958.7 | 2665.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,827 | 1149.4 | 2955.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,790 | 2458.1 | 3016.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,745 | 2005.7 | 2693.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,752 | 2168.9 | 3139.3 |
Estill Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Estill's 93 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the South Carolina cities closest to Estill in population. Their populations run from 1,639 to 1,930, against 1,752 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Estill sits at 2,168.9/100K violent (grade F); the South Carolina cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Estill reported 38 violent crimes and 55 property crimes, for a total of 93 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Estill's violent crime rate increased by 8.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 16.6%.
The most common crime type in Estill is larceny-theft, accounting for 41.9% of all reported crimes (39 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Estill's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Estill's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Estill, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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